I keep hearing mention about a hardware error.
As I said before, it's most likely either a problem with the IDE header (requiring it to be resoldered), a problem with the IDE cable (requiring a replacement), or a problem with the hard drive itself (also a replacement).

All of these problems are described in this FAQ.

A remote possibility is that the empeg's IDE controller is going bad, but that's quite unlikely, I think.
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Bitt Faulk